Lone Star Seance

John Benedict Buescher is an academic scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American religious history. Although not a Spiritualist, he is currently a co-director of the International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals (IAPSOP). He moved from Virginia to Texas in 2018 and has since focused his research on offbeat elements of Texas history, including the border radio stations along the Rio Grande, detailed in his 2021 book Radio Psychics. He has taught at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and has worked at the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Voice of America.